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e_, _Greygle_, the wild hyacinth, _Hyacinthus nonscriptus_. _Gramfer_, grandfather. _Ground-ash_, an ash stick that springs from the ground, and so is tough; "Ground the pick," to put the stem of it on the ground, to raise a pitch of hay. _Gwoad_ (8, 4), a goad. H. _Hacker_, a hoe. _Hagrod_, hagridden in sleep, if not under the nightmare. _Hain_ (5, 1), to fence in ground or shut up a field for mowing. _Ha'me_, see _Hau'm_. _Hangen_, sloping ground. _Hansel_, _Handsel_, a hand gift. _Hansel_, _Handsel_, to use a new thing for the first time. _Happer_, to hop up as hailstones or rain-drops from ground or pavement in a hard storm, or as down-shaken apples; to fall so hard as to hop up at falling. _Haps_, a hasp. _Ha'skim_, halfskim cheese of milk skimmed only once. _Hassen_, hast not. _Haum_, _Haulm_, _Hulm_, the hollow stalks of plants. _Teaetie haum_ potatoe stalks. _Hatch_, a low wicket or half door. _Haymeaeken_, haymaking. The steps of haymaking by hand, in the rich meadow lands of Blackmore, ere machines were brought into the field, were these:--The grass being mown, and laying in _swath_ it was (1) _tedded_, spread evenly over the ground; (2) it was _turned_ to dry the under side; (3) it was in the evening raked up into _rollers_, each roller of the grass of the stretch of one rake, and the rollers were sometimes put up into hay cocks; (4) in the morning the rollers were cast abroad into _pa'sels_ (parcels) or broad lists, with clear ground between each two; (5) the parcels were turned, and when dry they were pushed up into _weaeles_ (weales) or long ridges, and, with a fear of rain, the weaeles were put up into _pooks_, or big peaked heaps; the waggon (often called the _plow_) came along between two weaeles or rows of pooks, with two loaders, and a pitcher on each side pitched up to them the hay of his side, while two women raked after plow, or raked up the leavings of the pitchers, who stepped back from time to time to take it from them. _Hazen_, to forebode. _Hazzle_, hazel. _Heal_ (2), hide, to cover. _Heal pease_, to hoe up the earth on them. _Heaen_ (1, 4), a haft, handle. _Heft_, weight. _Herence_, hence. _Here right_, here on the spot, etc. _Het_, heat, also a heat in running. _Het_, to hit. _Heth_, a hearth, a heath. _Hick_, to hop on one leg. _Hidelock_, _Hidlock_, a hiding place. "He is in hidelock."
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